See how identity-first recovery helps a Microsoft 365 team restore Entra controls, contain blast radius, recover critical users, and verify business recovery after a privileged identity compromise.
This page describes an illustrative scenario. It is not a customer testimonial and does not contain fabricated metrics. It is intended to help Microsoft 365 teams, IT and security leaders, and procurement reviewers understand KavachIQ in the context of a realistic privileged identity compromise.
A privileged identity is compromised. The attacker works inside Microsoft Entra and Microsoft 365 to establish persistence, expand access, and weaken the controls that would normally catch them.
Attacker phishes a privileged session or abuses a valid token. MFA is weakened or bypassed.
Global Admin is assigned to a new account or an existing account is elevated.
CA policies and sign-in frequency requirements are loosened. Break-glass paths expanded.
New app consents or service principals added. Scoped permissions quietly expand.
Security groups, role-assignable groups, and admin units shift. Blast radius grows.
Mailbox delegation, SharePoint site access, OneDrive sharing, and Teams membership start drifting.
Most Microsoft 365 teams can eventually recover from this scenario. What makes it painful is the first few hours.
Blast radius is unclear. Who is actually affected, which policies changed, and what is safe to touch first is hard to answer in real time.
Policy drift is invisible. Conditional access and role changes over the last 24 hours are not trivially queryable across Entra.
Restore order is unclear. Teams pull mailboxes and files back first because that is what leadership asks for, but the attacker still holds admin rights.
Identity stays compromised while data is restored. The attacker re-encrypts, re-exfiltrates, or simply waits until attention drops.
Triage is slow. Cross-referencing Entra audit logs, M365 audit logs, and third-party alerts takes hours or days.
KavachIQ runs the same six-phase workflow on every recovery. Applied to a compromised Global Admin, this is what each phase does.
Baseline identity and workload state is already captured.
Baselines track normal tenant behavior.
Destructive change and identity drift are flagged with evidence.
Blast radius is computed across identity and data.
Guided, identity-first restore in the safest business order.
Business recovery is confirmed with evidence.
Restoring mailboxes and files before restoring identity controls is not safe. The attacker still holds Global Admin or residual privileged access.
Privileged role assignments, conditional access policies, MFA enforcement, OAuth grants, service principals, administrative units, and security groups are reverted to the last known-good snapshot.
Executives, privileged-role holders, compliance and security owners, and finance leads are restored and verified first.
Directors, senior engineering, shared SharePoint sites, and legal repositories are recovered in the order their business criticality suggests.
Remaining mailboxes, sites, Teams, and OneDrive content are restored. Checksums and sign-in tests confirm the tenant is actually back online.
KavachIQ does not eliminate incidents. It changes how a Microsoft 365 team runs the recovery and how defensibly they can sign off on being back online.
Teams start from a computed blast radius and a pre-computed recovery plan instead of improvising under pressure.
Identity controls come back before data. Attackers lose their foothold before the tenant is fully restored.
Identity and data diff-against-baseline make the actual scope of the incident visible, not assumed.
Recovery is scored with evidence. Leadership and security can sign off on "we are back" with a defensible artifact.
A timestamped log of detected changes, decisions, and restores supports security, legal, and procurement review after the fact.
Walk the compromised Global Admin scenario, or your specific incident, with a KavachIQ recovery engineer. Bring the Entra, policy, and workload questions that matter for your tenant.